Month: August 2023
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Apply: Kwara Govt Opens Portal For Students’ Palliatives
Kwara State Governor, Mallam AbdurRahman AbdurRazaq has approved payment of fuel subsidy removal palliative to undergraduate students of Kwara State origin in public-owned tertiary institutions across Nigeria. The government made the disclosure in a statement made available to the public by Prof. Shehu AbdulRaheem AdaramajaChairman, Government Committee on students’ palliative REGISTRATION PROCEDURE Eligible and interested…
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Governing Council: ASUU’s Rival, CONUA Disagrees With Tinubu
The Congress of University Academics, CONUA, has faulted the dissolution of the Governing Councils of federal universities by President Bola Tinubu, saying it is totally against the provisions of the Universities (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Act 2003. The union, a registered academic staff union in the university system, also lambasted the National Universities Commission, NUC, over…
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Ganduje: What I Told Tinubu About Replaced Ministerial Nominee, Shetty
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Gnaduje, has given some clarifications on the controversy surrounding former ministerial nominee, Maryam Shetty. Daily Trust had reported how President Bola Tinubu replaced Shetty with Mariya Mahmoud Bunkure who served as a commissioner when Ganduje was governor. Admitting that the social media outrage that trailed…
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Coup: NYSC Clears Air On Purported Move To Send Corps Members to Niger Republic
The Management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has downrightly reports alleging that Corps Members would be deployed to Niger Republic by the Federal Government of Nigeria to fight a war for the restoration of democracy in the troubled country. NYSC Director of Press and Public Relations, Eddy Megwa, who stated this in a…
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Tinubu: Atiku Suffers Set Back in US
Ahead of the presentation of judgment by the Presidential Election Petitions Court in Abuja in the petition he filed against the victory of President Bola Tinubu in the February 25, 2023 presidential election, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in that election, Atiku Abubakar, has suffered a legal blow in the United…
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Just In: Ogun Lawmaker’s aide Shot Dead in Lagos
Daily Trust Mr. Adeniyi Sanni, an aide of Senator Solomon Adeola, has been murdered in Lagos State. Sanni was killed under controversial circumstance in the early hours of Saturday. The deceased was stopped at a checking point in Lagos where he was said to have been questioned about documents of the vehicle he was driving.…
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How High-power Politics Behind Maryam Shetty’s Removal as Ministerial Nominee
Daily Trust While Nigerians were still trying to come to terms with the nomination of Maryam Shetty, a young and relatively unknown politician from Kano State, as a minister, her shocking replacement few hours to her screening has set tongues wagging on the intriguing power play that precipitated the unfolding process, Daily Trust Saturday reports.…
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Flash: President Withdraws Nomination of Nominee, Forwards Two Name
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has replaced a ministerial nominee, Maryam Shetty, choosing two others, including Festus Keyamo and Dr Maigari Mahmud. This was revealed when Senate President Godswill Akpabio read out a letter by the President at Friday’s plenary session. Details later…
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Coup: Niger Cuts Ties With Nigeria, as Peace Talk Fails
The military junta in Niger Republic has cut off ties with Nigeria after the efforts of Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) to resolve the ongoing impasse failed. ECOWAS had issued a seven-day ultimatum for the reinstatement of President Mohamed Bazoum to avoid possible clash with the junta. But President Bola Tinubu sent a…
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President Tinubu Speaks On Policies Being Implemented
President Bola Tinubu has said that the policies embarked upon by his administration must work for the people and not to punish them. The president, who spoke at the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday in Abuja, said they must find a way to satisfy the yearnings of…